Who we are

Meet the reporters and contributors to Missourian Neighborhood News. You may leave phone messages for reporters at the Missourian newsroom: 882-5720. E-mails should be directed to neighborhoods@columbiamissourian.com.

Spring 2011

Rock Bridge—Green Meadows—
Bedford Walk—Cedar Lake

Katie Moritz is a junior print journalism and cultural geography double major and a St. Louis native. She studied Arabic and might travel abroad to Egypt next year to work on mastering the language. Katie loves literature, music and DIY and dabbles in the ukulele. She would like to work in public or community radio after graduation.

Woodridge—Shepard

Natalie Devlin will put her wrist to good use with all of the notes taken and hands shaken as she acquaints herself with the neighborhood. She is double majoring in magazine journalism and international studies and hopes to one day be an international correspondent. Columbia replaced Rockville, Md., as her home a year and a half ago when she moved here to be part of the amazing journalism school. She looks forward to learning from people in the community in addition to the classroom and hopefully contributing something worthwhile to the sea of newsprint floating around town.

Parkade

Sara Johnson is a senior seeking her bachelor’s degree in photojournalism with a minor in business. She comes to MU from Dallas and hopes to return there after she graduates in December. She would like to work for either a magazine or a newspaper after graduation and her ultimate dream is to own her own photography studio. She is excited to work on the Parkade neighborhood beat this semester and looks forward to serving the Columbia community.

Cherry Hill—Stonecrest—Fairview

Kacie Flynn is a magazine journalism major and Spanish minor. She was born and raised in the Tower Grove South area of St. Louis. Tower Grove South is a very diverse and eclectic neighborhood and she hopes to bring the insights and experiences she gained growing up there to her neighborhood beat. Her dream job is to work at Vogue or Vanity Fair and if she could interview anyone it would definitely be Oprah Winfrey. Her interests are music, movies and spending time with friends and family. She is eager to serve the Cherry Hill-Stonecrest-Fairview neighborhood and is always available to lend an ear to the community.

Blue Ridge–Oakland

Camille Phillips is a graduate student at the MU School of Journalism. She has a B.A. in English from Truman State University, and grew up in Branson, Mo., before moving to New York. She has been a Spanish teacher, a cave guide and a receptionist at a law firm, and is excited to hear the stories and viewpoints of the people of Blue Ridge-Oakland and share them with Missourian readers.

Old Southwest

Margaux Henquinet is a sophomore working on majors in print journalism and Spanish and a minor in psychology. She is from the Chicago suburbs and loves the city, but has dreams of someday living in London or another foreign city. She has played the clarinet since fourth grade, recently got into rock climbing and loves baking (she’s especially good at chocolate chip cookies). Margaux plans to be a copy editor but has also considered travel writing or working for a bilingual publication. She’s open to whatever adventures and opportunities come her way.

East Campus

Kathryn Landis is a senior, originally from Kansas City, Mo., majoring in magazine design with a minor in film studies. She stumbled into design when an influential high school journalism teacher talked her into taking a media design course. She loves movies, which is evident by her DVD collection that travels with her almost everywhere. Her dream job is to work as a film critic.

Douglass Park

Catherine Newhouse is a magazine journalism and international studies major from Chicagoland. She enjoys having long conversations with quirky people, reading and writing science fiction and exploring bookstores. She is very interested in learning more about other cultures and rediscovering her own roots to Colombia and Palestine. She reported about race and poverty in the city as an intern for The Chicago Reporter, an investigative newsmagazine, last summer. She also wrote for Ignite Your Faith magazine and blogged about global issues for Teen Ink in high school. She can’t wait to start finding stories in Douglass Park and sharing them with readers.

College Park–West Boulevard

Ann Elise Taylor is currently pursuing a major in magazine journalism and minors in both English writing and psychology. This Fort Worth, Texas, native loves learning about new people and places and is excited to have the opportunity to do so in the College Park-West Boulevard neighborhood. Her interests include art, literature, archaeology and psychology, though as a budding journalist she tends to be curious about most topics. She has lived in Columbia for about two and a half years and enjoys the close-knit community the city offers.

Benton-Stephens

Alahandra Jones is a magazine journalism major from St. Louis. A junior at MU, her interests beyond journalism include sociology and law. Writing has always been a passion of Alahandra’s, and she looks forward to the unique opportunity to report for the Missourian and grow as a writer.

Smithton–Rothwell Heights

Anne Koncki is a sophomore from St. Louis studying magazine journalism and Spanish. Some of her hobbies include art, reading, singing and music. She is also training for her first half-marathon and is excited for that as well. She enjoys meeting new people and looks forward to getting to know the residents of the Smithton and Rothwell Heights neighborhoods.